Well, if it’s Thursday it must be another domestic worker drama affecting a right-winger.  Today it’s former CNN anchor and current Tea Party darling Lou Dobbs, best known for his vile diatribes against undocumented workers and the people who employ them.

According to The Nation, one of the few media outlets that still does hard-hitting investigations, Dobbs has employed at least five illegal immigrants for years to take care of his daughter’s champion horses in Florida and Vermont, and to maintain his million dollar estates in New Jersey and Florida.

Dobbs, who has said that employers of undocumented workers “should face felony charges” refused to comment on the story.

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If it’s Tuesday, there must be another ex-domestic worker of NutMeg and Harsh in the news. This time, the person is a U.S. citizen who was hired to be a nanny and personal assistant/jack jill-of-all-trades to the Harsh-Whitmans.

Jill Armstrong worked for eMeg in 1998, but lasted only two months before she quit because she “had trouble” getting paid for the time she had worked, and because of “challenges” in supervising the family’s two notoriously ill-behaving sons. (Note: These would be the two children who Meg was too busy raising to vote).

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Ninth-ranked Stanford (4-0) travels this week to the Nojo homeland to take on #4 Oregon (4-0). Kick-off at 5 pm PDT.

And the trash-talking has already begun, as Stanford’s Tree told Sports Illustrated that he was rounding up his homies to take on Oregon’s Duck. The Duck’s response: “Don’t come in my house and push me around.”

Given the ass-kicking the Duck gave the University of Houston Cougar a few years ago, the Tree better be ready.  Video after the jump.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k812fxnpLAM

[LAT: Tony Curtis Dies at 85]

The state politics correspondent for Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post today got in a kerfuffle with teabagger Republican/lover of equine-ass fucking/candidate for Governor of the Empire State Carl Paladino.

The irony of a reporter for the conservative rag being called “a bird dog” for Andrew Cuomo was bad enough, but the three minutes of video shot at some random and sad upstate motel lobby is just pathetic. Keep waving those dicks, white men! Nobody gives a shit and the rest of us gotta find a job.

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In honor of the press conference of eMeg’s Latina former housekeeper that Gloria Allred is hosting today at 11 am PDT, here’s your “What Else Can You Buy for $119 Million” open thread, not to be confused with Stinque’s previous “$22,140.75 an Hour” thread.

[Ed. Note: Thread may be updated with whatever are the actual “explosive” allegations against NutMeg Whitman]

2,725,968 new dictionaries for an elementary school on an Indian reservation in Montana ($6.97 per dictionary)

or 76,381 microscopes for a high school on an Indian reservation in Utah ($248.75 per microscope)

Picasso’s Garçon à la pipe painting. (Tip: MellBell)

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Leonard Skinner, a Jacksonville, Florida P.E. teacher and basketball coach, and the inspiration for the name of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died yesterday at 77 from Alzheimer’s Disease.  In the late ’60s, Coach Skinner upset future members of the band by sending them to the principal’s office for having long hair that reached past their collar, and the band later named themselves after him in a satirical tribute. Skinner was a good sport about it, as he once introduced them at a Jacksonville concert and let them use a photo of his real estate company’s sign in an album.

[Florida Times-Union: Tongue-in-Cheek Inspiration to Lynyrd Skynyrd Dies at 77]